Interesting facts about Canada's PMs

Prominent Quebec lawyer approached to take on Justice

1941 — Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King asks Quebec lawyer Louis St. Laurent to be his next Justice minister. St. Laurent is a past president of the Canadian Bar Association, was the legal adviser to the Rowell-Sirois Commission examining federal-provincial financial relations, and is co-chairing Quebec’s Victory Loan Campaign to raise money for the war effort.

If he says yes, St. Laurent will have big shoes to fill. The previous Justice minister was Ernest Lapointe, King’s Quebec lieutenant who died of cancer last month. St. Laurent enters cabinet on December 10.